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San Francisco County v. Sheehan, 135 S.Ct. 1765 (2015).
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•[A plaintiff] “cannot establish a Fourth Amendment violation based

merely on bad tactics that result in a deadly confrontation that could

have been avoided.” Id., at 1190. Courts must not judge officers with
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“the 20/20 vision of hindsight.”

•“…so long as “a reasonable officer could have believed that his

conduct was justified,” a plaintiff cannot “avoi[d] summary judgment by
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simply producing an expert’s report that an officer’s conduct leading up

to a deadly confrontation was imprudent, inappropriate, or even

reckless.”

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